- plural of category.
categories
Example Sentences
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Category 5 storms are extremely rare, accounting for about one percent of events classified as "extreme," while Categories 0 and 1 are common, together making up 79 percent of storms.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
Appeared in the October 29, 2025, print edition as 'A Band Between Categories'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025
Categories include multifamily construction, affordable housing construction, affordable housing preservation and construction of adaptive reuse projects, such as turning empty commercial buildings into housing.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
“It’s not unprecedented, but it’s unusual to have two Categories 3 or higher in August,” said David Robinson, climatologist at Rutgers University.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2023
The Neighborhood Dictatorship Group and the Black Categories were all we could think of.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
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